Bobby Jindal Cuts Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood Clinics in Louisiana
WTF is wrong with these idiots? Why would the voters keep someone like this in office? I cannot even begin to understand.
Bobby Jindal Cuts Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood Clinics in Louisiana
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has pulled Planned Parenthood from Medicaid funding in his state meaning the more than 4,000 Medicaid patients who received services from the organization last year can no longer be treated there. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images News)
Current polling shows Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal garnering a mere 2 percent of the vote among the field of 17 Republican presidential candidates who have qualified for inclusion in some version of the first two debates, putting him 22 points behind Donald Trump, the partys current leading candidate for the nomination.
So it seems far from arbitrary that Jindal would announce yesterday, in the midst of the Senate debate regarding the now-blocked bill to defund Planned Parenthood, that his state is ending its Medicaid contract with the nonprofit womens health care provider.
Last year, Planned Parenthood in Louisiana provided care for more than 4,300 patients through Medicaid, including birth control, breast and cervical cancer screenings, and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections.
More: https://www.yahoo.com/health/bobby-jindal-cuts-medicaid-funding-to-planned-125852338057.html